Melt butter in a saucepan. Remove from heat add sugar, golden syrup and vanilla. mix until smooth. Add eggs. Mix until smooth. Sift in flour and baking soda. Don’t mix yet. Add the mashed bananas and the apple sauce. mix until just combined. add extra milk to right consistency. Put in muffin tins and bake at 180deg until golden brown.

# a handy hint I learned (off TV I think) is to not worry about having Self Raising Flour just by plain flour and have baking soda handy. So then you don’t have buy many different types of flour. I just have wholemeal and plain and add the baking soda as needed.